Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, or DMDD: New "Temper Tantrum" diagnosis:rolleyes2
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, or DMDD: New "Temper Tantrum" diagnosis:rolleyes2 October 24, 2011 |
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/24/labeling-tantrums-a-mental-illness-doesnt-help/
"Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help"
Dr. Claudia M. Gold is a pediatrician and author of "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes."She certainly seems qualified to call BULLSHIT when she sees it!:BS
"In the winter of 2010, there was a lot of talk in the news (and I wrote an Op-Ed in The Boston Globe, "Warning label on new diagnosis") about a proposed new diagnosis for children, then called temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria, or TDD. The committee that is assigned the task of creating the new DSM-V, the diagnostic manual for mental health, got a lot of flak, so now they have changed the name to disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, or DMDD......................... Just one more "mental illness" welfare whores can use to get a kiddie crazy check. If the kid is 6 or over and throws tantrums, he will undoubtedly get this diagnosis and qualify for a check
Many thought that including the word "temper" would make temper tantrums, a normal and healthy part of development, a disorder. So is the new label an improvement? I think the whole discussion is misguided. It diverts our energies for addressing the real problem, namely that there is not enough help in this country, in the form of primary care, mental health care or community support, for struggling parents who are on the front lines raising the next generation. "..out on the front lines raising the next generation"
These are SHITTY parents who have no business raising kids, yet here they are referred to as if they are BRAVE soldiers BOLDLY keeping the human race from dying out. PA-LEASE!
........Here is a typical case of "disruptive mood dysregulation" that I see in my behavioral pediatrics practice at age 6 or above. Often, the pregnancy was very stressful. There may have been anxiety, depression, abuse or abandonment. There is evidence that stress in pregnancy has effects on an infant's capacity for self -regulation and is associated with later behavior problems in childhood. Infancy is similarly described as stressful. Mothers tell me about babies who cried all the time and were difficult to feed. They speak of terrible depression and feelings of being completely alone. Having a very challenging baby can lead to feelings of inadequacy and severe sleep deprivation, both of which may exacerbate a preexisting depression........................... In other words, a shitty home environment CAUSES this new "mental illness".:headbrick
Entering toddlerhood, a stage that under normal circumstances is challenging as children strive to assert their emerging selves, can be a nightmare when a child already has difficulty with self-regulation. These children often have a variety of sensory sensitivities. They decompensate in the grocery store, overwhelmed by all of the sounds and sights............................................ "Decompensate" in the grocery stores? Is that what a brat pitching a bitch in the middle of the aisle now being called?:
................Parents may describe terrible marital conflict. Or mothers may be raising a child alone. Not uncommonly, mothers and fathers have themselves experienced significant traumas in their own childhoods. No big surprise there. The new mental illness mostly affects kids of single moos, white trash who are always fighting and hitting each other, and mentally fucked up people who themselves had shitty childhoods rifled with abuse and trauma
I believe that an extended discussion of what to call this "mood dysregulation" at age 6 and above is completely off the mark. These children are certainly not "normal," as is often mentioned as the alternative to giving them a diagnosis. They and their families are suffering terribly. But giving them a label does not accomplish anything. It only makes it easier to bill for services and, even worse, to justify using powerful psychiatric drugs rather than treating the underlying cause................................................. She hit the NAIL on the head. "Easier to bill" means more Medicaid and private insurance will be billed for it AND since it will be a bona fide "mental illness" listed in the pediatric kiddie crazy bible, they will be camped outside doctors' offices and waiting in line for a crazy check diagnosis like we might see for a Grateful Dead concert ticket.:smn
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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
"Labeling tantrums a mental illness doesn't help"
Dr. Claudia M. Gold is a pediatrician and author of "Keeping Your Child in Mind: Overcoming Defiance, Tantrums and Other Everyday Behavior Problems by Seeing the World Through Your Child's Eyes."She certainly seems qualified to call BULLSHIT when she sees it!:BS
"In the winter of 2010, there was a lot of talk in the news (and I wrote an Op-Ed in The Boston Globe, "Warning label on new diagnosis") about a proposed new diagnosis for children, then called temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria, or TDD. The committee that is assigned the task of creating the new DSM-V, the diagnostic manual for mental health, got a lot of flak, so now they have changed the name to disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, or DMDD......................... Just one more "mental illness" welfare whores can use to get a kiddie crazy check. If the kid is 6 or over and throws tantrums, he will undoubtedly get this diagnosis and qualify for a check
Many thought that including the word "temper" would make temper tantrums, a normal and healthy part of development, a disorder. So is the new label an improvement? I think the whole discussion is misguided. It diverts our energies for addressing the real problem, namely that there is not enough help in this country, in the form of primary care, mental health care or community support, for struggling parents who are on the front lines raising the next generation. "..out on the front lines raising the next generation"
These are SHITTY parents who have no business raising kids, yet here they are referred to as if they are BRAVE soldiers BOLDLY keeping the human race from dying out. PA-LEASE!........Here is a typical case of "disruptive mood dysregulation" that I see in my behavioral pediatrics practice at age 6 or above. Often, the pregnancy was very stressful. There may have been anxiety, depression, abuse or abandonment. There is evidence that stress in pregnancy has effects on an infant's capacity for self -regulation and is associated with later behavior problems in childhood. Infancy is similarly described as stressful. Mothers tell me about babies who cried all the time and were difficult to feed. They speak of terrible depression and feelings of being completely alone. Having a very challenging baby can lead to feelings of inadequacy and severe sleep deprivation, both of which may exacerbate a preexisting depression........................... In other words, a shitty home environment CAUSES this new "mental illness".:headbrick
Entering toddlerhood, a stage that under normal circumstances is challenging as children strive to assert their emerging selves, can be a nightmare when a child already has difficulty with self-regulation. These children often have a variety of sensory sensitivities. They decompensate in the grocery store, overwhelmed by all of the sounds and sights............................................ "Decompensate" in the grocery stores? Is that what a brat pitching a bitch in the middle of the aisle now being called?:
................Parents may describe terrible marital conflict. Or mothers may be raising a child alone. Not uncommonly, mothers and fathers have themselves experienced significant traumas in their own childhoods. No big surprise there. The new mental illness mostly affects kids of single moos, white trash who are always fighting and hitting each other, and mentally fucked up people who themselves had shitty childhoods rifled with abuse and trauma
I believe that an extended discussion of what to call this "mood dysregulation" at age 6 and above is completely off the mark. These children are certainly not "normal," as is often mentioned as the alternative to giving them a diagnosis. They and their families are suffering terribly. But giving them a label does not accomplish anything. It only makes it easier to bill for services and, even worse, to justify using powerful psychiatric drugs rather than treating the underlying cause................................................. She hit the NAIL on the head. "Easier to bill" means more Medicaid and private insurance will be billed for it AND since it will be a bona fide "mental illness" listed in the pediatric kiddie crazy bible, they will be camped outside doctors' offices and waiting in line for a crazy check diagnosis like we might see for a Grateful Dead concert ticket.:smn
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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
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Re: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, or DMDD: New "Temper Tantrum" diagnosis:rolleyes2 October 24, 2011 |
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marco polo
I think it should instead be called ABDD (Ass Beating Deprivation Disorder).
zThis made me think of a family friend who says "Want a cure for ADD/ADHD? B-E-L-T! My folks used it on me and I turned out just fine
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